Impact of surgeon and hospital volume on short-term outcomes and cost of laryngeal cancer surgical care

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-90

  Gourin, Christine G ^a   Forastiere, Arlene A ^b   Sanguineti, Giuseppe ^a   Koch, Wayne M ^a   Marur, Shanthi ^b   Bristow, Robert E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; cost; laryngeal neoplasms; Level of evidence: 2c.; mortality; squamous cell cancer; surgery; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISTULA; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; WORKLOAD; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651076690     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21348     Document Type: Article

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